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An intimate powerful portrait of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private worldher studio and homeand indulged his lens while she worked rested waitedmischievous or lost in thought weary of decrepitude raging defiant to the end She fills the camera with her presence It is a profound portrait of an artist of the utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of the high modernist era and her early work anticipated what would come in the late modern and postmodern eras including minimalism installation art and body art However she did not achieve fame until after her seventieth year discovered and heralded by a new generation Once discovered her reputation grew in the 1980s 90s and 2000s with an array of major international exhibitions and a burst of creativity Throughout her art is confessional psychological and fraught with fear anger and sexuality Van Gelders collaborative portrait is in many ways a message from Bourgeois to the world her chosen epitaph scrawled in her own way by gesture expression and posture Despite the frailty and decrepitude of her near one hundred years she defies her vulnerability 81 color photographs
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The most complete overview of groundbreaking artist Louise Bourgeoiss sculptures textiles and prints is now available as an accessible paperbackLouise Bourgeoiss beguiling body of work encompasses spiders cages architectural sculptures fragile human figures and amorphous erotic forms Strongly influenced by surrealism abstract expressionism and minimalism she remains among the most prominent female contemporary artists of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries An overview of Bourgeoiss career this book begins with a series of essays before delving into encyclopedic entries on the themes and concepts most essential to the artists practice A glossary of terms ranging from etching and existentialism to Mapplethorpe and maternity contains excerpts from interviews diary entries texts and more than 300 illustrations to provide the reader with multiple points of entry into Bourgeoiss complex and nonlinear world The tenthanniversary reissue makes this peerless resource available to all touched by Bourgeoiss influential practiceHer staggering variety of mediums includes rubber wood stone metal and fabric In 1993 she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale An overview of Bourgeoiss career this book covers individual works art movements other artists and themes that have played an important role in her life and art with text by acclaimed authors and critics including Julia Kristeva Elisabeth Lebovici Frances Morris Mignon Nixon Linda Nochlin Robert Storr Alex Potts Marina Warner and Deborah Wye
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Louise Bourgeois work defies classification oscillating continually between abstract geometry and organic reality She uses a range of materials from wood and plaster to marble and latex to explore universal themesthe body childhood maternity and sexualityfrom a deeply personal perspective imbuing them with extraordinary emotional intensity This comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph is chronological in approach and brings together her works from early sketches and paintings to later sculptures and installations with which she has astonished the art world Author MarieLaure Bernadac skillfully weaves her insightful text with Bourgeois own words from articles films and interviews to provide a unique and highly accessible study of this fascinating and complex artist
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Louise Bourgeois Destruction of the sold at 59.88 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
edited by MarieLaure Bernadac and HansUlrich ObristEveryday you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if youcannot accept it you become a sculptorSince the age of twelve the internationally renowned sculptor LouiseBourgeois has been writing and drawing first a diary preciselyrecounting the everyday events of her family life then notes andreflections Destruction of the Father the title comes fromthe name of a sculpture she did following the death of her husband in1973 contains both formal texts and what the artist callspenthoughts drawingtexts often connected to her drawings andsculptures with stories or poems inscribed alongside the imagesWriting is a means of expression that has gained increasing importancefor Bourgeois particularly during periods of insomnia The writing iscompulsive but it can also be perfectly controlled informed by herintellectual background knowledge of art history and sense ofliterary form she has frequently published articles on artistsexhibitions and art events Bourgeois a private woman withoutsecrets has given numerous interviews to journalists artists andwriters expressing her views on her oeuvre revealing its hiddenmeanings and relating the connection of certain works to the traumasof her childhood This book collects both her writings and her spokenremarks on art confirming the deep links between her work and herbiography and offering new insights into her creative process
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An elegantly produced double portrait of the affinities and differences between two of the 20th centurys greatest artistsCoupling the works of Louise Bourgeois 19112010 and Pablo Picasso 18811973 produces a thoughtprovoking discourse on the artists formal and iconographic links Inspired by archaic and primitive sources both Bourgeois and Picasso explored and developed interpretations of fertility and mother deities late in life both artists focused on eroticism sexuality and intimacyIn summer 2019 objects from these pivotal 20thcentury artists will be presented at Hauser amp Wirth Zürich marking the first twoperson show in which a female sculptors works are put into an extended dialogue with those of Picasso This beautifully designed book with its cloth boards and title stamping builds upon the complex conversation about gender the exhibition sparks with texts by exhibition curator MarieLaure Bernadac former curator at the Louvre Picasso Museum and Centre Pompidou Émilie Bouvard art historian and curator Ulf Küster curator at the Fondation Beyeler Gérard Wajcman psychoanalyst and writer and Diana Widmaier Picasso art historian
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Anyone who has stood underneath one of Louise Bourgeois Mamansher sculptures of spiders symbolizing maternal protectionunderstands the singularity of her artistic approach Stylistically her pioneering body of work is complex she deployed a wide variety of materials and practicesdrawings etchings installations works made of fabric sculptures in wood marble bronze latex plaster and hempto address universal questions This extensive monograph provides an overview of Bourgeois artistic development and presents a large number of works including some that have never before been reproduced The volume is grouped into themes that characterize her oeuvre including memory trauma relationships sexuality fear and the difficulties of being an artist and mother at the same time Personal photographs further document the artists childhood and family life with several letters and documents being made available for the first timeBorn in Paris where she studied with Fernand Léger Louise Bourgeois 19112010 moved to New York in 1938 where her first solo exhibition was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in 1945 She quickly developed a sculptural vocabulary that drew inventively and equally on Abstract Expressionism Surrealism and psychoanalysis Bourgeois had her first retrospective in 1982 at ThenbspMuseum of Modern Artnbspin New York She died in May 2010
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Introduces the life of renowned modern artist Louise Bourgeois who is known primarily for her sculptures
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NewYork Paris 1988 1 Volume1 Comme Neuf Reliure éditeur cartonnée illustrée Format in4 308 x 25 cm 1620 gr 194 pages de reproductions dont 1 en planche dépliante 1 page de texte en anglais Hardback No dust jacket as issued Quarto size 308 x 25 cm 1620 gr 194 pages 184 drawings illustrated in color bw fullpage one gatefold brief text by Robert Storr ref 36e47
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JeanFrançois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994 at her studio in Brooklyn But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995 under one condition she would destroy the photographs if she didnt like them Jaussaud agreed to it and passed the test He was then given carte blanche to photograph her studio and her house in Chelsea and he kept coming back for another eleven years Jaussauds photographs of Louise Bourgeois in her house and studio are a moving testimony showing how completely implicated in her work she was to the point that her private life and her work were inextricably interwoven
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Anyone who has stood underneath one of Louise Bourgeois Mamansher sculptures of spiders symbolizing maternal protectionunderstands the singularity of her artistic approach Stylistically her pioneering body of work is complex she deployed a wide variety of materials and practicesdrawings etchings installations works made of fabric sculptures in wood marble bronze latex plaster and hempto address universal questions This extensive monograph provides an overview of Bourgeois artistic development and presents a large number of works including some that have never before been reproduced The volume is grouped into themes that characterize her oeuvre including memory trauma relationships sexuality fear and the difficulties of being an artist and mother at the same time Personal photographs further document the artists childhood and family life with several letters and documents being made available for the first timeBorn in Paris where she studied with Fernand Léger Louise Bourgeois 19112010 moved to New York in 1938 where her first solo exhibition was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in 1945 She quickly developed a sculptural vocabulary that drew inventively and equally on Abstract Expressionism Surrealism and psychoanalysis Bourgeois had her first retrospective in 1982 at ThenbspMuseum of Modern Artnbspin New York She died in May 2010
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First edition Softcover 319 pages Published in conjunction a traveling exhibition Features text contributions by Robert Storr Elizabeth Lebovici Linda Nochlin Mignon Nixon Julia Kristeva Alex Potts and Donald Kuspit Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations bibliography chronology and checklist A clean near fine copy with some bumping to the base of the spine
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Now available in an updated and expanded edition this survey of an essential series in the art of Louise Bourgeois serves as an introduction to her influential work In her work Bourgeois used materials ranging from rubber wood fabric and metal to glass paper cement and marble through which the stories of her own life resonated with the lives of others This generously illustrated book presents the complete cycle of Cell installations from the 1990s until a short time before Bourgeoiss death in 2010 In these contained environments Bourgeois reflected on the human tendency toward isolation and her own memories The book also places this work in the context of Bourgeoiss life as an artist including her youth as the daughter of Parisian textile workers her studies with Fernand Léger and her experiences with the leading artists of the New York School in the 40s and 50s
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Founded by French writer and poet André Breton in 1924 surrealism was an artistic and literary cultural movement known for its visual art and writings that challenged the power of imagination But it has been an artistic movement most associated with the famous men whove become household names in art such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte Yet there were many more surrealist women artists than has been recognizeduntil now Seeking to present the female perspective of the women artists of surrealism Fantastic Women highlights this forgotten side of the avantgarde movement Even though most women of the movement were considered to be the partners or models of Bretons circle they actually played a larger role While male surrealists chose to portray women as goddesses shedevils dolls fetishes nymphets or imaginary figures the female artists emphasized the unexpected influences of established gender roles and social behaviors Their art questioned the female image and role in society while attempting to establish a new persona for generations to come In true surrealist form Fantastic Women highlights their creative engagement with the imagination and the unconscious through their fascination with political topics literature and foreign myths Including 350 color plates Fantastic Women showcases their paintings drawings photography films and other artworks that create a powerful case for the recognition and celebration of the surreal and fanciful work of the women artists of the avantgarde
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Artwork by Louise Bourgeois Contributions by Jennifer Bloomer Text by Mieke Bal Lynne Cooke Beatriz Colomina Jerry Gorovoy Christiane Terrisse Danielle Tilkin Josef Helfenstein
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JeanFrançois Jaussaud met Louise Bourgeois for the first time in 1994 at her studio in Brooklyn But it was not before she had interrogated him about every aspect of his life that he earned her trust A first photo session was set up in Spring 1995 under one condition she would destroy the photographs if she didnt like them Jaussaud agreed to it and passed the test He was then given carte blanche to photograph her studio and her house in Chelsea and he kept coming back for another eleven years Jaussauds photographs of Louise Bourgeois in her house and studio are a moving testimony showing how completely implicated in her work she was to the point that her private life and her work were inextricably interwoven
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This book documents a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois 19112010 and the architect Peter Zumthor born 1943 The Steilneset Memorial opened in 2011 is a monument in Vardø Norway commemorating the 17thcentury trial and execution of 91 women for witchcraftThe brainchild of the National Tourist Routes project in Norway a governmentsponsored initiative which aims to attract visitors to remote but exceptionally beautiful locations the Steilneset Memorial started out as a modest monument to honor the victims of the witchcraft trials to be built on the site where the burnings originally took place But the project which would be Bourgeois last major work grew in the hands of Zumthor and Bourgeois into two distinct haunting structures
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Louise Bourgeois 19112010 invented a new kind of language for sculpturea language that was essentially psychoanalytic uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle ominous forces of repression sexual symbolism and material uncanniness Famed for some of the twentieth centurys most enduring works such as The Destruction of the Father 1974 Arch of Hysteria 1993 and Maman 1999 Bourgeois also disseminated her influence through her writings collected in the 1998 volume Destruction of the FatherReconstruction of the Father Writings 19271997originally published by Robert Violette also the publisher of this new deluxe writingscummonograph twovolume set Louise Bourgeois The Return of the Repressed highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artists life and work Selected and edited by Philip LarrattSmith Bourgeois literary archivist and contextualized with eight extensive scholarly essays this collection of approximately 80 previously unpublished writings spans some six decades of the artists production The second volume in this gorgeous slipcased set is an impressive uptodate Bourgeois monograph that details works made right up until the artists death in 2010 Together the two volumes comprise the most complete portrait of the life work and thought of this seminal figure
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